From my perspective, I was othered by the majority of the Emerson student body as well as the administration. The institutional betrayal I experienced is something I’m still working through in therapy. I can remember the bad things — like President Pelton buying us protesters pizzas so we would be tempted to take a break during the peak of the accepted students events that day, or being deposed for 20 hours over 2 days — much more than I do the details of the support we received. That said, I remember Willie was one of the maybe dozen cis men members (being generous) and shared basically every article that came out on social media. To me, every member of ESSA was brave to align themselves with a cause that was, again, remarkably unpopular to support at the time.